HYDERABAD, Dec 3: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi on Wednesday called for complete deweaponisation of Karachi and abolition of local government system to put an end to sporadic violence that resulted in deaths of innocent people.

He said at a news conference at the Taraqqi Pasand House that a Sindhi paramilitary force should be formed to replace rangers and Frontier Constabulary, and Karachi’s community police should be given under the control of provincial IG.

He advised Sindhi people to buy weapons for their protection, especially in Karachi, and “besiege parliamentarians to press them for obtaining arms licenses.”

Mr Magsi said that as long as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Awami National Party were part of provincial government, there would be no letup in bloodshed in Karachi and demanded pure Sindhi rule over the province.

He said that MQM had realised that administrative bifurcation of Sindh under the Sindh Local Government Ordinance, which facilitated formation of MQM-led district governments in Karachi and Hyderabad, would disappear if the old districts were restored.

“If the party is sincere with Sindh then it should strive for the rights of Sindh by demanding expulsion of people who had arrived in Sindh after 1954, and making efforts for taking back control of natural resources of Sindh from the federal government,” he said.

He accused the PPP’s federal and provincial governments of playing into MQM’s hands over the issue of Talibanisation. “Altaf Hussain has no right to interfere in our affairs because he has now become a British citizen,” he said.

He lashed out at MQM’s repeated calls for its women activists to carry arms in their purses, and reports of shooting clubs opened in Karachi for training women in guns’ use.

Sindh had never witnessed murders on the basis of ethnicity and the phenomenon had appeared only after coming into being of MQM, he said.

He called for registration of FIR against MQM and Sindh government over loss of 50 lives in Karachi’s recent disturbances.

“PPP, MQM and ANP are part of coalition government but they are parroting the same sentences that they don’t know who is killing people,” he said.

He saw a conspiracy against Sindh behind the bloodbath, saying that the MQM would compromise with ANP and then their guns would be aimed at Sindhis.

He said that all immigrants should be given work permits on the pattern of Dubai, which remained completely peaceful though various communities live there.